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You can help Foster Evidence-Based Practice While
Enhancing Your Own Professional Development. You
know the importance of journals and the peer-review
process in developing a body of evidence for
practice.
Manuscript reviewers are essential to that
effort.
What are the benefits of serving as a manuscript
reviewer for your own professional development?
Service as a manuscript reviewer:
- Is valuable for tenure and promotion.
- Helps you prepare and improve your own
manuscripts for review and publication.
- Contributes to your program’s efforts to
increase faculty participation in scholarly
activities and may help your program meet
expectations for faculty scholarship that are
currently being considered for inclusion by
CAPTE.
- Gives you a “preview” of the latest
developments in research.
- Hones your skills in writing, critical
analysis, and professional communication.
Do you meet the eligibility criteria to serve?
- Publication history of at least 2 articles
in peer-reviewed journals.
- Have content expertise that is relevant to
physical therapy.
- Ability to provide an unbiased, critical
evaluation of a manuscript.
- Willingness to complete reviews in a timely
manner (usually within 2 weeks of receipt of
manuscript).
- Commitment to review a minimum of 3
manuscripts per year.
If you meet the above criteria, please e-mail
janreynolds@apta.org.
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In the following pages, you will find brief
information useful to overseas Physical Therapists that want to
work in the United States, Canada, the United
Kingdom, Republic of Ireland, Australia and New
Zealand.